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K2-48 b

1,023.36 light-years

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Discovery
Transit · 2016
Radius
2.24 (+0.24 / −0.24) Earth radii
Mass
5.65 Earth masses
Orbital period
20.5065 (+3.5 × 10⁻³ / −3.5 × 10⁻³) days
Semi-major axis
0.1344 (+1.2 × 10⁻³ / −1.2 × 10⁻³) AU
Equilibrium temperature
550.56 (+11.82 / −11.82) K
Mass provenance
M-R relationship

Measurements may come from different studies and need not form one self-consistent model. “Msini” is a minimum mass; a mass inferred from radius is an estimate. Equilibrium temperature is a model estimate, not a measured surface temperature or evidence of habitability.

NASA archive record and references ↗

Snapshot retrieved: 2026-10-11T04:15:07.688253+00:00